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FENDER FOR VEHICLE WHEELS. No. 368,912. `Patented Aug. z3, 1887.

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JAMES A. DUNNIN G, OF AULANDER, NORTH CAROLINA.

FENDER Fon VEHICLE-WH EELS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 368,912, dated August 23, 1887.

Application filed June 9l 1887. Serial No. 240,766. (No model.)

.To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES A. DUNNING, a citizen of the United States, residing at Aulander, in the county of Bertie .and State of North Carolina, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fenders for Vehicles; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters or figures of reference marked thereon,which form a part of this specification.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a representation of this invention,and is a vertical section taken through one of the slots. Fig. 2 is a top view. Fig. 3 is a vertical section, and shows the application to a wheel. v i

This invention has relation to rub-irons or graze-irons for vehicles; and it consists in the construction and novel combination of parts, as hereinafter set forth.

In the accompanying drawings, the letterA designates the frame-plate, which is to be se- V cured to the iron framing under the body of the buggy or other vehicle. This plate is usually slotted, as indicated at B B, for the securing-bolts. The plate is formed with the end flanges, O C, tp which are connected the ends of the pivot or bearing rod D, which extends lengthwise of the plate under the saine and near its front margin, E.

F is the graze-frame or fender-frame, which is provided with the ends or arms G, which are pivoted by their middle portions on the rod D. These arms are provided with the rollers H, which extend lengthwise and parallel to each other and to the rod D, when such rod is used, for it is evident that the arms may be pivoted to short studs of the flanges of the frame-plate. The rod, however, is preferred, as it makes a strong brace, holding the flanges from spreading.

The arms G are adjacent to and parallel to the flanges C, andare arranged next the inner sides of said flanges, as shown, and the rollers H are located one outward from the rod D, or in a projecting position beyond the margin of the frame-plate, and the other inward or back of the rod D under the fra1ne-plate. In its normal position the roller-frame is parallel, or.

nearly so, to the frame-plate, and is elastically held in such position by a spring or springs.

In the drawings the spring S is represented as coiled around the rod D, and its ends are extended to engage the frame-plates and an arm of the roller-frame. When the upper portion of the wheel strikes the front or' outer roller, its action is such as to press this roller upward, thereby tipping the frame-plate to inclined position and bringing the rear roller to bear, so that a broad rolling fender is opposed to the wheel, effectively preventing it from passing under and lifting the body of the Vehicle.

In the construction preferred the ends of the Varms G are connected by the rodbearings K,

on which the rollers H are seated, as shown in the drawings; but the construction may be Varied by pivoting the rollers to the arms G and bracing these arms by independent connections, and other modes of constructing the tipping-rollenplate may be readily devised without departing from the principles hereinbefore set forth.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. The graze-iron consisting of a frame-plate, tipping-roller frame pivoted thereto and carrying the outer and inner parallel rollers, and the spring elastically connecting the frameplate and `the roller-frame, vsubstantially as specified. v

2. rlhe combination, with the frame-plate having end flanges and the bearing-rod connecting the same, of the tippingroller frame pivoted on said rod, the outer and inner rollers, and the spring elastically connecting the frame-plateand the roller-frame, substantially as specied.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JAMES A. DUNN ING. Witnesses: Y'

THEO. MUNGEN, PHILIP C. MAsI. 

